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September 7, 2007

China
Is China selling its Treasuries?

Combine two data points The August fall in Treasury holdings in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s custodial accounts (the data is released weekly here); andThe very modest increase in China’s re…

September 22, 2005

Monetary Policy
Where are the world’s reserves going?

In my post "has the US outsourced creative thinking about external adjustment to France," I noted that purchases of Treasuries by central banks have fallen off - even though global reserve accumulati…

Where are the world’s reserves going?

April 5, 2011

Politics and Government
Is Operation Odyssey Dawn Constitutional? Part V

  Most Americans think of the Supreme Court as the legal equivalent of a baseball umpire. In their view, the Court’s job is to call legal balls and strikes, and thereby tell us what the law is. So…

Justices

March 13, 2008

Wars and Conflict
Iraq: Five Years of War

JANE ARRAF: Thank you, everyone, for coming today, and welcome to today's Council on Foreign Relations meeting. I'd just like to remind you to please turn off your BlackBerrys or cell phones and ot…

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December 8, 2005

Iraq
Training Iraqi forces

This publication is now archived. IntroductionFor weeks now—at least since Iraqis overwhelmingly approved a new constitution in late October—United States policy in Iraq increasingly has come to depe…